A woman has shared key symptoms after she had a seven-month delay before being diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer. Ruby Rogers, 28, said people should not accept a diagnosis if they don’t feel it is right.
Ruby said initially she was told that her symptoms were colitis or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) - and it took seven months until she finally had a CT scan - and by that time she was ‘screaming in pain’. Now she has been told that her bowel cancer is incurable, HullLive reports.
She said: “I don’t eat red meat, I don’t smoke, and I rarely drink - yet there I was at 27 being told I have bowel cancer which has spread to other parts of my body. Every time I tell the doctors I don’t do any of the above three things, they literally sigh in shock - they don’t know why I have this. They say it could be genetic.”
